{"id":425,"date":"2014-08-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=425"},"modified":"2014-08-16T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T22:00:00","slug":"ribadu-joins-pdp-but-gulak-says-he-cant-contest-adamawa-guber-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Ribadu joins PDP, but Gulak says he can&#8217;t contest Adamawa guber poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] just as former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan is arguing that Ribadu cannot contest the Adamawa governorship election as he had not fulfilled the two year constitutional provision by the party for him to be granted a waiver.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in 2011 and until his defection today, saturday considered one of the presidential prospects of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan and governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Adamawa State, Ahmed Gulak, has said the former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, is free to join the PDP provided he is ready to eat his vomit over negative comments he made against PDP.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed doubt over the membership of some PDP aspirants ahead of the election saying they have not fulfilled the two year constitutional provision by the PDP for them to be granted waiver as members.<\/p>\n<p>He specifically said he is not aware that Ambassador Buba Marwa, an aspirant under PDP has not met the waiver criteria as he joined PDP upon the emergence of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Former gubernatorial candidate Marcus Gundiri, also joined the PDP same time Marwa did.<\/p>\n<p>Gulak who stated these yesterday at the PDP national secretariat after he picked the expression of interest and nomination forms, further noted that his former boss, President Goodluck Jonathan is aware of his ambition as he has intimated him before picking his forms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PDP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-426\" alt=\"PDP\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PDP-300x142.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PDP-300x142.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PDP.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] just as former political adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan is arguing that Ribadu cannot contest the Adamawa governorship election as he had not fulfilled the two year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-pdp"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PDP.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-6R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}